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OAKLAND, Calif., April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) today filed an anti-Strategic Lawsuit
to Prevent Public Participation motion against the California Nurses
Association (CNA) to prevent the union from further efforts to silence
critics of its divisive tactics. The motion cites a temporary restraining
order against SEIU President Andy Stern and SEIU that the CNA obtained as a
publicity stunt last week as the latest effort by the CNA to suppress
nurses and hospital workers who have criticized its anti-union tactics in
Ohio and other states.

SEIU also filed an application today to vacate the temporary
restraining order, which was obtained by the CNA on April 15 from a local
court commissioner -- without any notice to SEIU -- and based on
misrepresentations by the CNA.

"CNA leaders have waged a dishonest and desperate campaign to divert
attention from the truth that they've robbed more than 8,000 Ohio workers
of the right to form a union," said Andy Stern, SEIU International
President. "Their latest trick was the cynical use of important laws
intended to protect people from real abuse and harassment -- most often
women -- and it simply went too far."

The motion against the CNA was filed today under California's Code of
Civil Procedure Section 425.16, a statute intended to prevent organizations
from using a Strategic Lawsuit to Prevent Public Participation or "SLAPP"
suit to suppress free speech from critics or opponents. SEIU expects to
recover its attorney's fees and costs for having to vacate the improper
restraining order.

"California's anti-SLAPP legislation is designed to ensure
organizations, like the CNA, cannot stand in the way of the First Amendment
rights of SEIU workers--or anyone else -- simply because they don't like
being criticized," said Stephen Berzon, a partner at Altshuler Berzon LLP,
the San Francisco-based law firm handling the case.

At a hearing this afternoon at the Alameda County Superior Court, the
court conveyed it was "strongly of the belief" that the temporary
restraining order obtained by the CNA was unlawful under the labor code.
The court granted the CNA the opportunity to respond to the SEIU motion to
vacate the order within 24 hours -- by 3PM pacific on Tuesday, April 22 --
and is expected to make a ruling immediately thereafter.

TRO IS LATEST TACTIC IN CNA MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN

The CNA filing of the temporary restraining order last Wednesday is the
latest tactic in a campaign of untruths and misinformation led by the
California-based union. After waging a vicious "vote no" operation at
Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP) hospitals in Ohio that sabotaged a
three-year effort by nurses and hospital workers to win a fair process to
freely choose whether to form a union with SEIU, the CNA has consistently
and inaccurately characterized efforts by CHP workers and supporters to
engage with CNA leadership over the union's anti-union tactics as
"harassment." Video footage shows that what the CNA called "5 male staffers
harassing CNA Board members" was actually a registered nurse and
respiratory therapist going door-to-door to try to speak to CNA leadership:
(available online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGw2QJTgw4I).

"I just wanted to talk with CNA leaders and ask them to explain why
they stood in the way of union elections for me and other hospital workers
in Ohio," said Sue Allen, a registered nurse with CHP in Springfield, OH
who spent a week door-knocking alongside one of her coworkers to try to
reach CNA board-members. "For the CNA to call that 'stalking' is an
exaggeration to say the least."

Last week, the CNA posted widely an exaggerated and distorted depiction
of a protest at an April 12 Labor Notes Conference in Dearborn, MI,
featuring photos and video of SEIU members and staff injured by conference
security as "evidence of violence by protesters." Despite outcry from
Rachael Holland, the SEIU organizer in the images, the CNA has failed to
admit its misrepresentation of actual events. The CNA has even created a
video featuring Rachael's photo as "evidence" (available online at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiMH20aJiXg).

"Talk about adding insult to injury," said Rachael Holland, SEIU
1199WKO organizer from Ohio, in her blog response days after the incident
(available online at
http://www.openleft.com/showComment.do?commentId=58295). "A photograph of
me being assaulted by them, and yelling out in pain has been posted on the
web by CNA bloggers as fake evidence of OUR treatment of women!"

AVOIDING WORKERS, DEBATE OVER ANTI-UNION EFFORTS IN OHIO

Rather than face SEIU members and other protestors led by CHP hospital
workers from Ohio, CNA Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro cancelled an
appearance at the April 12 Labor Notes Conference in Dearborn at the last
minute. Days later, amid growing criticism of the CNA's disruption of union
elections among CHP hospital employees, DeMoro also cancelled her
appearance as featured speaker at an April 25 gathering of Chicago's labor
and progressive allies hosted by the Chicago Democratic Socialists of
America (DSA).

"It's bad enough the CNA continues to distort reality to divert focus
from the real issues and avoid debating their anti-union tactics," said Tom
Debruin, President of SEIU Healthcare PA. "Now the CNA is trying to use the
legal system to rob CHP nurses and health care workers of their right to
free speech right and hiding the truth from hospital workers nationwide."

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